Letter: Policy body cameras brings complicated maintenance

While on a visit to St. Louis, the following front page headline greeted me on Sept. 4: “Missing video; Police could not find their arrest evidence video, just recorded days before, in Ferguson, Missouri.”

Loosely quoting, the story said the the big issue is how to store, maintain and find the terabytes of data, police body cameras generate. If not done properly, the new technology can create the same problems it was intended to alleviate.

So, therein lies my argument, again, that the cost of police cameras, the effort, the mountains of data recorded, and even the retrieval, if left in human hands, is a debacle of monumental proportions.